Waist/?Penis ornament. Narrow band of plant fibre with plaited fringes at either end. The body has been dyed purple over stencils. [BS [OPS Move] 21/3/2017]

Collection type: Object
Description: Waist/?Penis ornament. Narrow band of plant fibre with plaited fringes at either end. The body has been dyed purple over stencils. [BS [OPS Move] 21/3/2017]
Geographical reference: Vanuatu
Oceania > Melanesia > Vanuatu; Malampa Province Malakula
Person: Field collector William Alison Dyke Acland; PRM source Oxford University Museum of Natural History; PRM source Department of Comparative Anatomical, Oxford University Museum of Natural History; PRM source Acland collection; PRM source William Alison Dyke Acland
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1884
Date collected: October 1883 to July 1884
Acquisition information: Transferred: 1885, uncertain Transferred: 1886, uncertain
Materials and processes: Material Plant Fibre, Material Pigment, Process Plaited, Process Basketry, Process Dyed, Process Stencilled, Process Plaited
Dimensions: Length: max 1360 mm, Width: max 60 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1886.2.130
Research and responses: For further information about Commander W.A.D. Acland see Biographies file. He served in Peru in the early 1880s and may have collected these objects at that time [AP 1/9/99]

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